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Analysis of N6-Methyladenosine Methylation Modification in Fructose-Induced Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.780617

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fructose; lipid metabolism; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; N6-methyladenosine; RNA methylation

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0800402]
  2. Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader by Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Committee [21XD1423400]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81970751, 81870596, 81870594, 81820108008]
  4. Shanghai Jiao Tong University [YG2019GD05]

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The study demonstrates a positive correlation between m6A methylation modifications and NAFLD, with enrichment in lipid metabolism processes. Both high fructose diet and leptin receptor deficiency result in up-regulation of genes related to lipid metabolism pathways, but different regulation of immune inflammatory response genes.
Improvements in living standards have led to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), one of the most common chronic liver diseases worldwide. Recent studies have shown that N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a type of RNA modification, is strongly associated with many important biological processes. However, the relationship between m6A methylation modifications and NAFLD remains poorly understood. In the present study, through methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing and RNA transcriptome sequencing in high fructose diet-induced NAFLD mice, we found that hypermethylation-encoding genes were mainly enriched in lipid metabolism processes. We identified 266 overlapping and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) that changed at both the mRNA expression level and m6A modification level. Among them, 193 genes displayed increased expression and m6A modification, indicating that m6A RNA modifications tend to be positively correlated with NAFLD. We further compared the high fructose diet-induced NAFLD mouse model with leptin receptor-deficient mice and found that DEGs enriched in the lipid metabolism pathway were up-regulated in both groups. In contrast, DEGs associated with the immune inflammatory response were up-regulated in the high fructose diet group, but down-regulated in leptin receptor-deficient mice. Taken together, our results demonstrate that m6A methylation modifications may play an important role in the development of NAFLD.

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